v0.5.5u

✊ Amit Jethwa

• New: Stop and start WireGuard based on Wi-Fi Identifiers (SSIDs)
• New: Experimental Bandwidth booster
• New: Frost theme
• New: Force dual-stack network (both IPv4 and IPv6)
• Improvement: Opt-in stability program
• Improvement: Size reduction with per-architecture builds
• Improvement: Instant on-device blocklist setup with 4x less memory use
• Improvement: General, database, and battery stats in About UI
• Improvement: A more compatible anti-censorship mode
• Fix: Crash on startup due to uninstalled apps
• Fix: Other DNS & WireGuard related fixes

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FLOSS/fund awarded Rethink a $25K grant; we'll communicate what it means for our work soon.

Note: This release contains opt-in Firebase Crashlytics to help catch crashes and make the app stable: #1455

v0.5.5t

🍜 Soup Kitchen

1. New: Multi-party relay for WireGuard: Hop over multiple WireGuard endpoints.
2. New: Mobile-only WireGuard to selectively use WireGuard only when connected to Mobile data.
3. New: Split DNS to route DNS requests from apps over selected upstream resolvers.
4. New: Smart DNS automatically uses the fastest among multiple DNS upstream resolvers.
5. New: View & close active connections from Stats and Apps UIs.
6. New: Endpoint-Independent Mapping for UDP.
7. New: User configurable connectivity checks.
8. New: Configurable Anti-censorship techniques.
9. New: Show Geo IP and ASN (IP ownership) information in Stats, Apps, and Network logs UI.
10. New: Automation to start & stop Rethink with apps like Tasker.
11. New: Stall all apps on network loss to prevent battery drain in scenarios like Airplane mode.
12. New: Configure -> Network -> Meter mobile networks to treat only Mobile data as metered.
13. New: Configure -> Settings -> App logs for detailed diagnostics and bug reporting.
14. New: Backup and restore WireGuard configurations.
15. Improvement: WireGuard upload / download speeds.
16. Improvement: Notification for DNSCrypt failures.
17. Fix: Stop button unresponsiveness.

Note: There is no v055s release.

v0.5.5r

🦖 Rawr

1. New: Change how app reacts to network changes from Configure -> Network.
2. New: Conditionally use "Fallback DNS" for bypassed apps, domains, and IPs.
3. New: Faster and reliable Loopback mode.
4. Improvement: IPs and domains grouped by app in Stats.
5. Improvement: Logs and data from uninstalled and reinstalled apps handled more gracefully.
6. Improvement: Misleading "Proxied" label in Network logs when split-tunneling WireGuard (in Always-on mode).
7. Fix: Possible traffic (for Lockdown WireGuard) leak on app startup.

Note: This is a fast-follow release, the last major release was v055o (beta).

v0.5.5q

🔥 Chilli Ketchup 2.0

• Fix: Attempt to fix network stall when in VPN Lockdown mode.
• Fix: Enforce Bypass app from all proxies.

Note: v055q is a fast-follow release. Most of the significant changes were released in v055o.

v0.5.5p

🌶 Chilli Ketchup

1. New: DNSSEC-compliant cache for queries.
2. New: Encrypted Client Hello for DNS-over-HTTPS and DNS-over-TLS.
3. New: Enable WireGuards only on Mobile networks.
4. Improvement: Apps UI remembers search and filter settings.
5. Fix: Improved connectivity handling when in "VPN Lockdown" mode.
6. Fix: Anti-censorship mode closing DNS connections.
7. Fix: Skipped IP address allow / trust rules.
8. Fix: Resolve connection issues with SOCKS5 and HTTP proxies.

Note: v055p is a fast-follow release. Most of the significant changes were released in v055o.

v0.5.5o

🍅 Ketchup

1. 🔧 Complete rewrite of the network engine for better stability and performance
2. ⚡ Numerous fixes and optimizations across the network engine
3. ✨ Various UI improvements

📝 Note: This is not a detailed changelog.

v0.5.5n

🧘‍♀️ Don't Panic

1. New: Capture network engine errors in user bug reports.
2. New: use System DNS for "undelegated" domain names iff Prevent DNS leaks is ON.
3. Improvement: Dual-stack (IPv4 + IPv6) WireGuard connectivity.
4. Improvement: Avoid blocking the UI elements when the network engine is unresponsive.
5. Fix: Connection timeouts with Advanced DNS filtering turned ON.
6. Fix: WireGuard peer endpoints with domain names hang on network changes.

Note: v055n is a fast-follow release. Most of the significant changes were released in v055f.

v0.5.5m

🤸 Hitchhiker 2.0

1. Fix: High TCP retransmissions.
2. Improvement: TCP, UDP connection establishment.
3. Disallow stopping from Notification Bar and Quick Settings on app lock.

Note: v055m is a fast-follow release. Most of the significant changes were released in v055f.

v0.5.5l

🤸 Hitchhiker

1. New: Bypass apps from all proxies.
2. Fix: Network engine stall.

Note: v055l is a fast-follow release. Most of the significant changes were released in v055f.

v0.5.5k

🪁 Up

1. Fix: Auto-reconnect WireGuard.
2. Fix: Crash in Stats UI.
3. Fix: Network engine stability improvements.
4. Fix: Improved WireGuard upload speeds.

Note: v055k is a fast-follow release. Most of the significant changes were released in v055f.

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It has been brought to our attention that this version contains Crashlytics (report). If so, it has been included by mistake. More: #1568